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The Justice Department Hits a New Low with the Epstein Files

The Justice Department Hits a New Low with the Epstein Files

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On a Friday night in October 2021, the Department of Justice went into damage control mode. Attorney General Merrick Garland, ...

The Strange Afterlife of Hilma af Klint, Painting’s Posthumous Star

The Strange Afterlife of Hilma af Klint, Painting’s Posthumous Star

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Af Klint later stated (implausibly, according to some historians) that Steiner warned her that the world was not ready for ...

The Comic Genius Who Pushed Television Further Than It Could Go.

The Comic Genius Who Pushed Television Further Than It Could Go.

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At its peak, Your Show of Shows was watched by twenty-five million viewers and Caesar was hailed as a genius. ...

What Do We Want from Our Child Stars?

What Do We Want from Our Child Stars?

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However, Master Betty ran the little province of Parnassus dedicated to underage actors before Shirley Temple came along – and ...

“Monuments,” Reviewed: The Confederacy Surrenders to a Truer American Past

“Monuments,” Reviewed: The Confederacy Surrenders to a Truer American Past

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The first thing you see is a horse's butt sticking upside down from the monster's chest. A man's hand descends ...

Why Trump Tore Down the East Wing

Why Trump Tore Down the East Wing

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The surprise and shock that so many people registered at the photographs of Donald Trump's destruction of the East Wing ...

Mark Bittman’s Experiment in Sliding-Scale Fine Dining

Mark Bittman’s Experiment in Sliding-Scale Fine Dining

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By lunchtime, the café had convincingly transformed into a restaurant: tealights flickered next to arrangements of wildflowers on carefully set ...

A “New Middle East” Is Easier to Declare Than to Achieve

A “New Middle East” Is Easier to Declare Than to Achieve

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President Donald Trump arrived at Ben Gurion Airport on Monday morning, October 13, just as Hamas was freeing the last ...

V. R. Lang, a Forgotten Queen Bee of Modern Poetry

V. R. Lang, a Forgotten Queen Bee of Modern Poetry

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The very phrase “Theater of Poets,” it must be said, does not inspire much confidence, being a combination of two ...